Month: May 2020

Music can share so many different emotions with us. Some songs can make us feel happy and excited, while other songs can make us feel sad or relaxed. The best part about this, though, is that one song could have a totally different emotion for different people! A song that makes you feel happy might not give the same feeling to somebody else, and that’s one of the reasons that music is so special!

I’d love to hear what kind of music gives you an emotional connection. See if you can find a different answer for each of these emotions. Your answers could be a song title, a personal experience (like “listening to my brother play piano”, or “hearing my mom singing”), or something else!

The music that makes me feel excited is…

The music that makes me feel sad is…

The music that makes me feel calm is…

The music that makes me feel ___________ (pick a different emotion!) is….

I’d love to hear your answers, so please send them to derek.maroney@burnabyschools.ca

Sometimes it seems like making music can be hard, especially if you don’t have an instrument at home! Sure, you can always sing a song, but what can you do if you want to play music on something?

This is where we get to be creative with our “instruments”. There are so many different ways that we can create different sounds using just the objects in our house. How many different sounds can you get out of just using a cereal box? Maybe it can be like a drum, if you hit the box with spoons. Maybe it can be a shaker, if you shake the cereal bag. Maybe it can be a megaphone and make your voice louder, if you sing into the hollow box with both ends.

My challenge for you is to see if you can find things around your house that you can make music with in each of these ways:

1. Something you can shake
2. Something you can scrape
3. 3 different things that you can use as drums
4. One object that you can get 3 different sounds out of
5. Something that has both a high pitched sound and a low sound
6. Something that makes your voice sound different when you sing into it
7. Something that makes a sound that you might hear on a beach
8. Something from nature that can make a sound

Please share some of your findings with me, I’d love to see/hear what you create! You can either share them as a comment on this post, or by email to derek.maroney@burnabyschools.ca

Happy hunting!

For inspiration, here’s a video of one of my favourite musicians, Jacob Collier, creating a song using only found sounds. So cool!